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ILLUSTRATED 

FROM DESIGNS BY MISS L. B. HUMPHREY. 




WASH15S: 

PHILADELPHIA: 

J. B. LIPP1NCOTT & CO. 

LONDON: 16 SOUTHAMPTON ST., STRAND. 
1881. 






Copy right, 

1880, 

lY J. B. LlPPINCOTT & CO. 



L IP P I NCOTT S 
PRESS. 



DRIFTING. 




"A /TY soul to-day 
Is far away, 
Sailing the Yesuvian Bay ; 
My winged boat, 
A bird afloat, 
Swims round the purple peaks remote : — 



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OUND purple peaks 
It sails, and seeks 
Blue inlets and their crystal creeks, 
"Where high rocks throw, 
Through deeps below, 
A duplicated golden glow. 




"TT^AR, vague, and dim, 
The mountains swim ; 

While on Vesuvius' misty brim, 
With outstretched hands, 
The gray smoke stands 

O'erlooking the volcanic lands. 



TN lofty lines, 

'Mid palms and pines, 
And olives, aloes, elms, and vines, 

Sorrento swings 

On sunset wings, 
Where Tasso's spirit soars and sings. 



TTERE Ischia smiles 
O'er liquid miles ; 

And yonder, bluest of the is 
Calm Capri waits, 
Her sapphire gates 

Beguiling to her bright estates. 





J HEED not, if 

My rippling skiff 
Float swift or slow from cliff to 
cliff;— 
With dreamful eyes 
My spirit lies 
Under the walls of Paradise. 



Under the walls 
Where swells and falls 
The Bay's deep hreast at intervals 




At peace I lie, 
Blown softly by, 
A cloud upon this liquid sky. 

The day, so mild, 

Is Heaven's own child, 
With Earth and Ocean reconciled;— 

The airs I feel 

Around me steal 
Are murmuring to the murmuring keel. 



/"AVER the rail 

My hand I trail 
Within the shadow of the sail, 

A joy intense, 

The cooling sense 
Glides down my drowsy indolence. 




ITH dreamful eyes 
My spirit lies 
Where Summer sings and never 
dies, — 
O'erveiled with vines, 
She glows and shines 
Among her future oil and wines. 




TTER children, hid 
The cliffs amid, 
Are gambolling with the 
gambolling kid ; 
Or down the walls, 
With tipsy calls, 
Laugh on the rocks like 
waterfalls. 



rpHE fisher's child, 

With tresses wild, 
Unto the smooth, bright sand beguiled, 

With glowing lips 

Sings as she skips, 
Or gazes at the far-off: ships. 



~X7^0N deep bark goes 
Where Traffic blows 
From lands of sun to lands 
of snows ; — 




This happier one, 

Its course is run 

From lands of snow to 

lands of sun. 




r\ HAPPY ship, 

To rise and dip, 

With the blue crystal at your lip! 
O happy crew, 
My heart with you 

Sails, and sails, and sings anew! 




"VTO more, no more 

The worldly shore 
Upbraids me with its loud uproar ! 

With dreamful eyes 

My spirit lies 
Under the walls of Paradise ! 



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